Q&A: mac pc vs. mac intel
Q: I’m still on a mac pc. It appears your new NV is for intel only. Any workarounds?
A: I think you mean PPC vs Intel? Assuming that’s the case, I’m sorry the build doesn’t work for you. I’m pretty new at this (development) and don’t quite get XCode build settings… or something. I’ll try and get a universal build going. It would be good if I had a tester or 5. Could you email me at elasticthreads at gmail ?
In the meantime you can check progress and my to do list here.
Q&A:InstapaperIt-generated Titles
Q: Would it be possible to add a preference to InstapaperIt, which gives saved articles a title generated from the linked page, rather than the text of the link? A lot of times, I use want to read articles later that are linked in-line with text like “here” and other generally bewildering captions when they’re used as titles in Instapaper. Thanks.
A: I’ll work on it. Instapaper’s API has a built-in auto-titler, which InstapaperIt does use, but not always. It is a toss-up when you compare the results of just using the link text vs using the Instapaper API’s auto-titler. Half the time one of them works better, and vice-versa. Maybe its 60-40. The Instapaper auto-titler is terrible with NYTimes links, for example. And the problem is that if I choose to use the auto-titler, I won’t know what it comes up with until its too late (the article’s already been sent).
Writing my own auto-titler is not in the scope of an extension (a client-side script), it needs a server-side element to crawl that link and then decide which to use.
Maybe I’ll just switch back to the auto-titler and harass Marco to improve things…
Q&A: How to add current page to Instapaper?
Q: I love InstapaperIt and I was wondering how I could add to Instapaper the current website, which usually doesn’t have a link to itself, which would be redundant.
Any info would be appreciated. Thanks!
A: Update the InstapaperIt extension by going into Safari’s preferences, the extensions’ tab, and scrolling down to “updates”. I just updated InstapaperIt to include this ability.
